 | Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton - 1890 - 394 lehte
...which are extremely fond of insects, will not eat them, as I have proved over and over again.' 2 ' I observed a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies...caught, the birds never brought one to their nest.' A tame white-faced monkey ' would greedily munch up beetle or butterfly given to him, and I used to... | |
 | Samuel Hubbard Scudder - 1895 - 326 lehte
...distasteful to birds has been shown again and again. Thus Belt says, in his "Naturalist in Nicaragua": — " I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that some...their young, and although the Heliconii swarmed in the neighborhood, and are of weak flight, so as to be easily caught, the birds never brought one to their... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1904 - 524 lehte
...other fcetid glands. The only case mentioned by Belt in TTte Naturalist in Nicaragua is the following: "Thus I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that...a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies and dragon flies to their young, and although the Heliconii swarmed in the neighborhood and are of weak... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1904 - 486 lehte
...other foetid glands. The only case mentioned by Belt in The Naturalist in Nicaragua is the following: " Thus I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that...a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies and dragon flies to their young, and although the Heliconii swarmed in the neighborhood and are of weak... | |
 | Entomological Society of London (1833-1933) - 1910 - 982 lehte
...are never particular " : P. Hahnel, " Iris," 1890, p. 317 (Amazons). Birds not identified : — (a) " I observed a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies...caught, the birds never brought one to their nest " : T. Belt, " Naturalist in Nicaragua," p. 316. — (V) Of a Brazilian bird called " Suruqua," the... | |
 | 460 lehte
...other foetid glands. The only case mentioned by Belt in The Naturalist in Nicaragua is the following : "Thus I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that...a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies and dragon flies to their young, and although the Helicon swarmed in the neighborhood and are of weak flight... | |
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I had an opportunity of proving in Brazil that some birds, if not all, reject the Heliconii butterflies, which are closely resembled by butterflies of other families and by moths. I observed a pair of birds that were bringing butterflies and dragonflies... 